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Didn't Victor tell Jack they were at The Genoa City Ballroom? I remember laughing out loud at that - the city can only afford one park, but by god it has its very own ballroom. ETA: I'm already bored with Sage. She should go live with Summer, Dylan, Billy, Lauren, Chelsea and the Winters, and they can all be boring together. Preferably off screen.

Ha! I know, right!?!?! When she said "a god who sacrificed a young woman" I had to pause and rewind to figure out what the hell was going on. Alas, I did not miss a fantastic human sacrifice storyline, just GT reciting from an awful script. (But can we throw Summer into a volcano, anyway?)

I will bet you my morning coffee those were ringers, same as when Gordon Ramsey reopens a restaurant and there's a line to get in. At least Ramsey's honest that the show gets the word out to ensure a successful opening night. Let's see how many Unique chairs are filled when the show publicity dies down. And anyway, who wants to be squeezed asses-to-elbows when getting their hair done? Maybe if you're only paying $10 for a super quick, super cheap cut. But I think many people pay salon prices to have some semblance of a pampering experience, or at least not feel like they're riding the subway in rush hour. The owner of this salon is not, imo, such a major draw that people will stampede through her doors to get their hair done in a mosh pit. It was pretty telling that someone on Twitter asked Marcus who formulated the hair products and he gave a non-answer. This is just like any other cheap "private label" brand where you pay a company to throw some shit in a bottle and put your name on it, in between doing the exact same thing for a zillion other clients. He's trying to get it into Sephora? LOL I went to the Erika Cole by Raquel site and it's awful.

Marcus, Marcus, Marcus... just when I thought it couldn't get worse than Queen's Vibe, you come along with Erika Cole by Raquel. Dollar Store brand, sure (because at one dollar no one cares). $22 per tube? Why would someone pay that much for such a cheesy amateur "private label" when they could spend it on an established brand that doesn't sound like something out of a Bratz movie and is known to work? Ay yi yi. The nail in the coffin was that they didn't spend a single second discussing why this was a product was worth investing in, what's unique about it, the ingredients, what customers love about it, anything. On the plus side, it was refreshing to see a business owner who knew her numbers and had some shred of business sense, and wasn't a scam artist trying to take advantage.

Ohhhh... please please please let this happen!! They can write me in as Noah's love interest. I call dibs.

Yes!!! I have a shameful little crush on Noah and would love for him to have some real scenes, besides talking to his parents or kissing Policewoman Barbie.

Yes they do! I have rediscovered this show thanks to the reruns, although so far they have only shown the ones with Dennis Farina, not the original Stack eps. It's nice to see some other people like the show. :) I don't know why this is so scary to me, but the episode that took place in a suburb of Houston where a couple dug their backyard to put in a pool and uncovered human graves? YIKES. I wasn't bothered by all the junk about them being haunted by the spirits of the people they dug up, but it still freaks me out to think there could be an unmarked cemetery under the lawn and I just don't know about it...

I swooned over this (with laughter). SWOONED. The photo montage song (from the same geniuses who brought us Kickin' It In The Crib) sounded like it was ripped from the latest Barney CD. I'll have you, if you'll have me... we're a happy familyyyyy. God, the music on this show. Thank you for explaining the significance of Summer's hairbrush because I've become so bored with this sl that all I registered was "what? huh? did Summer lend Faith her hairbrush?". It's turning into the next Music Box Mystery.

Regarding their claim that the ep was filmed over the course of months... according to Inc Magazine, Marcus films eight full days per episode. He only films this show 4-5 months per year, total. The Swansons want us to believe that Marcus spent the bulk of his entire filming schedule for the season at their place? LOL I believe what really happened is that the entire process took a few months. There would be pre-interviews with producers, filming some footage that didn't require Marcus (such as exterior shots), a discovery process (according to another interview the show doesn't film blind, although Marcus walks on set without knowing the full story). So boo hoo hoo they had to take some blocks of time out of their schedule over the course of months. Did they expect to be featured on a national t.v. show and the opportunity at receiving a huge check for nothing??? They should go into business with Maarse Florists - money for nothing and your checks for free.

I think Queen's Vibe is the sort of thing that a non-New Yorker says when they want to pretend they're a hipster but they can't afford a location in Williamsburg. I love me some Marcus but sometimes he comes across as a bit... um... I bet he thinks Celine Dion is edgy.

BWAH-HA-HA! I can't believe no one in the Newman Residence notices all the vodka that keeps going missing from the well-stocked bar service that is conveniently located in the living room, as you do with an alcoholic in the house... (And speaking of answering doors - how come Victor and Nikki answer their own door now? Can they no longer afford a house boy a la Miguel?)

The title of this recap was perfection. Can someone please slap Victoria INDEED! And repeatedly. I didn't think I liked Maureen too much (unless she takes Nikki on a drunken Thelma And Louise spree - are you listening Y&R?), but this scene was glorious. p.s. Kiiiiickin' it, kiiiiickin' it, kickin' it at the crib... lol rock on Nick

My father-in-law is a prostate cancer survivor, and I would prefer my soap opera ignore the opportunity to make a cringe-inducing mockery of that disease. I mean, look what they've done for bipolar disorder... Ebola, hmmm... Ebola would require everyone to dress in Hazmat suits, and if that's what it takes to put Fenmore's out of business then I'm all for it.

Actually, this is what I feared - Y&R will become one big Very Special Episode of Blossom in which we have to hear all the details about Michael's little fella, while the Newman subsidiary that almost succeeded in ridding the world of Summer with caffeine pills will be enlisted to create a cure for cancer in Ashley's pretty new lab, which she will donate for the greater good so Lauren is not forced once again to whore it up with a mob bartender. Lots of people will hang around GC hospital reciting lines from public service announcements and preaching to us about prostate symptoms, and the big payoff will be Fen donating half his prostate for a transplant performed by Stitch, who is very confused and thinks it's like donating part of your liver, which worked out okay for Paul, and it's not like any of these writers have a clue. It would be much better if they just ended a couple of episodes with info on how to get this brochure: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/wyntk/prostate/page1

Marcus lost me at "Queen's Vibe". I hope it really was his own idea and not concocted by an overpaid member of his marketing team.

NO! Not the evil jazz! It's been outlawed by zealots since it first appeared: "Is there anything bad about jazz music itself?" I asked. "There certainly is! Those moaning saxophones and the rest of the instruments with their broken, jerky rhythm make a purely sensual appeal. They call out the low and rowdy instinct." http://www.1920-30.com/dance/jazz-must-go.html Granted, that's from 1921 but the Duggars are stuck in the dark ages anyway.

Dylan McAvoy, finder of trapdoors LOL! This should be his official character description. And can someone explain why Nikki having an AA brochure would seem out of the ordinary? Doesn't Victor recall that she's a recovering alcoholic and has attended AA meetings?

I am grateful for your recap, Peach, because I missed everything that came after Neil showed up to the hotel and (apparently) didn't notice his wife smells of sex, sweat and Miss Devonne's cologne. First time in ages that I didn't FF through a Winters scene and oh the regret. (they've ruined Ian Ward, who I worshiped)

http://spiritualsoundingboard.com/2014/10/12/bill-gothards-new-programministry-total-success-power-teams/ I found out that fathers sign up for it and they become part of a team. Evidently it’s some sort of accountability group concept where questions are sent out and men have meetings online. The fathers then instruct their families and encourage them to pray and meditate. He told me he was very excited about it and was encouraged about the growth he had already seen in his new program. So it's an email chain. REVOLUTIONARY! Go go Power Rangers...

In MEchelle's defense, there is absolutely no way these imprisoned kids could ever be in a situation where they'd have a snowball's chance in hell of accidentally kissing a member of the opposite sex. The interviewer might as well asked her what she would do if one of her kids grew wings and flew to Mars... :(

Neil needs Cane to be his wingman, and luckily can’t see Cane weirding out over how he’s supposed to handle this. *ZING* Neil is the least sympathetic electrocuted blind person in the history of everything. I hope he falls off the roof of the GCAC.

The Abbotts all cry over Delia’s dissertation. LOL! Damn that thing was long... How many boxes of crayons did it take to write?

Wow. Were they all waking up from anesthesia? ITA about the flamboyant modesty. I think it goes along with the bible verse about praying in a closet: And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Hey Jim Bob, put THAT in your hairspray and sniff it!

Wow. So she experienced the emotional torment of an eating disorder when she was a teenager... and now chooses to raise her daughters in a belief system that requires them to be thin?!?!? Imo if she's not lying about the bulimia then she's Mommie Dearest. Either way this now goes near the very top of my list of Duggar things that get on my nerves.

I am still recovering from the sight of those MONSTER HEAPS of cake Lily brought to eat with Devon. Did she use a shovel? Classy. And the cake should have gone to Nick and Sharon instead of into the Winters' greedy maws. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw-ggXDa0q0